The Bad Buying Blog
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
There are local elections in England this week – but we are seeing more cases of corruotion and incompetence in local governemtn, with huge amounts of the taxpayers’ money wasted.
the public Accounts committee criticised the UK’s Ministry of Defence last week for its procurement failings. Meanwhile a major MOD contract is in dispute with the supplier.
The consultancy group PwC was hit recently with a £7.5m fine over a string of errors while auditing the engineering company Babcock’s accounts, including creating a false record of documents for […]
I’ve had a couple of abortive attempts at writing a book about “procurement transformation”. Perhaps one day it will happen. But my feeling over the years is that often presentations […]
Two recent news stories highlight the importance of some procurement basics, such as a robust contract.